Jenn Writes

Fiction selections

Barbara Adair: Will, the Passenger Delaying Flight … (Modjaji Books)

Terry-Ann Adams: Those Who Live in Cages (Jacana Media)

Mia Arderne: Mermaid Fillet (Kwela)

Lauren Beukes: Afterland (Umuzi)

Vivian de Klerk: Not to Mention (Picador Africa)

Finuala Dowling: Okay, Okay, Okay (Kwela)

Ekow Duker: Yellowbone (Kwela)

TC Farren: The Book of Malachi (Kwela)

Dawn Garisch: Breaking Milk (Karavan Press)

Litha Hermanus: The Eyes of the Naked (Penguin Fiction)

Michiel Heyns: A Poor Season for Whales (Jonathan Ball Publishers)

Craig Higginson: The Book of Gifts (Picador Africa)

Lynn Joffe: The Gospel According to Wanda B. Lazarus (Modjaji Books)

Fred Khumalo: The Longest March (Umuzi)

Angela Makholwa: Critical But, Stable (Pan Macmillan)

Rešoketšwe Manenzhe: Scatterlings (Jacana Media)

Zakes Mda: The Zulus of New York (Umuzi)

Niq Mhlongo: Paradise in Gaza (Kwela)

Nthikeng Mohlele: Illumination (Picador Africa)

Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu: The History of Man (Penguin Fiction)

Masande Ntshanga: Triangulum (Umuzi)

Sue Nyathi: A Family Affair (Pan Macmillan)

Phumlani Pikoli: Born Freeloaders (Picador Africa)

Marguerite Poland: A Sin of Omission (Penguin Fiction)

Trevor Sacks: Lucky Packet (Kwela)

Patricia Schonstein: The Inn at Helsvlakte (Penguin Fiction)

Steven Boykey Sidley: Leaving Word (Melinda Ferguson Books)

Fiona Snyckers: Lacuna (Picador Africa)

Jen Thorpe: The Fall (Kwela)

Ivan Vladislavić: The Distance (Umuzi)

Zoë Wicomb: Still Life (Umuzi)

Mark Winkler: Due South of Copenhagen (Umuzi)

Ingrid Winterbach translated by Michiel Heyns: The Troubled Times of Magrieta Prinsloo (Human & Rousseau)

Non-fiction selections

Angelo Agrizzi: Inside the Belly of the Beast: The Real Bosasa Story (Truth Be Told Publishers)

Greg Ardé: War Party: How the ANC’s Political Killings are Breaking South Africa (Tafelberg)

Sean Baumann: Madness: Stories of Uncertainty and Hope (Jonathan Ball Publishers)

Ryan Blumenthal: Autopsy: Life in the Trenches with a Forensic Pathologist in Africa (Jonathan Ball Publishers)

Barbara Boswell: And Wrote My Story Anyway: Black South African Women’s Novels as Feminism (Wits University Press)

Marcus Byrne and Helen Lunn: Dance of the Dung Beetles: Their Role in our Changing World (Wits University Press)

Imtiaz A Cajee: The Murder of Ahmed Timol: My Search for the Truth (Jacana Media)

Jacob Dlamini: Safari Nation: A Social History of the Kruger National Park (Jacana Media)

Mark Gevisser: The Pink Line: Journeys Across the World’s Queer Frontiers (Jonathan Ball Publishers)

Liz Gunner: Radio Soundings: South Africa and the Black Modern (Wits University Press)

Adam Habib: Rebels and Rage: Reflecting on #FeesMustFall (Jonathan Ball Publishers)

Anton Harber: So, for the Record: Behind the Headlines in an Era of State Capture (Jonathan Ball Publishers)

Andrew Harding: These Are Not Gentle People: A True Story (Picador Africa)

Joanne Hichens: Death and the After Parties: A Memoir (Karavan Press)

Ruth Hopkins: The Misery Merchants: Life and Death in a Private South African Prison (Jacana Media)

Jonathan Jansen: Learning Lessons (Bookstorm)

Karl Kemp: Promised Land: Exploring South Africa’s Land Conflict (Penguin Non-fiction)

Jamil F Khan Khamr: The Makings of a Waterslams (Jacana Media)

Kelly-Eve Koopman: Because I Couldn’t Kill You: On her Feminist Struggle, Missing Father and the Myths of Memory (Melinda Ferguson Books)

Lou-Marié Kruger: Of Motherhood and Melancholia: Notebook of a Psycho-ethnographer (University of KwaZulu-Natal Press/Women)

John Laband: The Land Wars: The Dispossession of the Khoisan and AmaXhosa in the Cape Colony (Penguin Non-fiction)

Malose Langa: Becoming Men: Black Masculinities in a South African Township (Wits University Press)

Pieter-Louis Myburgh: Gangster State: Unravelling Ace Magashule’s Web of Capture (Penguin Non-fiction)

Julia Martin: The Blackridge House: A Memoir (Jonathan Ball Publishers)

Mxolisi R Mchunu: Violence and Solace: The Natal Civil War in Late-Apartheid South Africa (University of KwaZulu-Natal Press)

Patric Tariq Mellet: The Lie of 1652: A Decolonised History of Land (Tafelberg)

Dikgang Moseneke: All Rise: A Judicial Memoir (Picador Africa)

Gregory Mthembu-Salter: Wanted Dead & Alive: The Case for South Africa’s Cattle (Cover2Cover)

Shanthini Naidoo: Women in Solitary: Inside the Female Resistance to Apartheid (Tafelberg)

Rehana Rossouw: Predator Politics: Mabuza, Fred Daniel and the Great Land Scam (Jacana Media)

Michael Schmidt: Death Flight: Apartheid’s Secret Doctrine of Disappearance (Tafelberg)

Telita Snyckers: Dirty Tobacco: Spies, Lies and Mega-Profits — A SARS Insider Spills the Beans on Global Crime (Tafelberg)

Jonny Steinberg: One Day in Bethlehem (Jonathan Ball Publishers)

Gaongalelwe Tiro: Parcel of Death: The Biography of Onkgopotse Abram Tiro (Picador Africa)

Malaika wa Azania: Corridors of Death: Struggling to Exist in Historically White Institutions (Blackbird Books)

Mandy Wiener: The Whistleblowers (Pan Macmillan South Africa)

Deon Wiggett: My Only Story: The Hunt for a Serial Paedophile (Penguin Non-fiction)

Lwando Xaso: Made in South Africa: A Black Woman’s Stories of Rage, Resistance and Progress (Tracey MacDonald Publishers)